Organ donor conspiracy theory

I’ve heard numerous renditions of why people do and don’t sign up to be organ donors. Everything from, “if you’re an organ donor, you’re a walking target,” to “if you’re black, don’t be an organ donor because your organs will be chosen over your life.”
First, can I just say that society has an active imagination? Who comes up with these things, and who takes the first stride in creating a following behind them? Second, where are you getting this information from?
Let’s put it into perspective. Yearly, the number of people who are on the national transplant waiting list fluctuates between 100-120,000. Of those people, between 30-35,000 actually receive a transplant, and of those remaining, about 20 of them die everyday waiting for a transplant.
Now the elephant in the room has been addressed, care to learn where you stand on that spectrum?
If you’re black, you’re not in the 30-35,000 bracket. You are 1 of the 20. Why? Because blacks are more likely to need an organ transplant than the rest of the population due to higher susceptibility to illnesses like diabetes and hypertension, which often result in organ failure and the need for a transplant. Meanwhile, blacks make up less than one-third of registered donors. So, a suitable organ may never come your way because blood and tissue types need to match for a successful transplant, and organs from people from the same ethnic background are more likely to be a close match.
This completely eliminates the whole “if you’re black, don’t be an organ donor because your organs will be chosen over your life,” because y’all not registered as donors anyways. Not to mention that only 3 in 1,000 people die in a manner that even allows their organs to be donated, so there’s a really big chance that you don’t even qualify.
To the walking targets, your name was not put into this scary lottery where if its pulled, you’re hunted down and killed for your organs. Chill out, you’re not that hot of a commodity. There’s no secret group going around making sure organ donors die so their organs can be recycled.
The truth of it is that we all have the power to even attempt to make a difference by just simply registering as an organ donor. Even if you never get the opportunity to live inside of someone else, you’ll know that you made efforts to make a change and save a life, but the worries lie within conspiracy theories and ignorance. Educate yourself about what you choose to believe, and develop your own opinion. Don’t just follow the theory wave.
And yes, I am a registered organ donor. You should be too.